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  • Bill Hybels Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Robert Collier Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Beth Henley Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • James Baldwin Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
    Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • John Selden Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Henry L. Doherty Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
    Henry L. Doherty
    Irish-American financier and oilman
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  • Bruce Springsteen Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • C. K. Williams Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Thomas Hardy Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Emily Dickinson Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • John Keats Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Allen Ginsberg Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Abraham Cowley Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Doris Lessing Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Carl I. Hagen Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.
    About state officials Speech at the Progress Party national convention o
    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley Politicization means the expansion is slowing up and you are no longer attempting to achieve increased output per capita, or increased wealth, or increased satisfactions... but you are doing so by mobilizing power. We have seen this going on for almost a century....increased militarization.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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